Author: tqb

Tinker, tail -r, soldered, spry
Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas

I wrote my first movie review on Letterboxd today. I’m re-posting it here, for posterity. This is my first review. It may be my only review. This will be rambling, deeply personal, may read as pretentious, and I apologize for none of it. But I did warn you. I can’t actually review this movie. I …

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I 🟥 Judd

I 🟥 Judd

I saw bumper stickers like the title of this post for years and wondered, in the pre-internet era, what they meant. I believed it when I was told, “Oh, it’s a band. It’s an inside joke among the fans.” WTF? It wasn’t until my second trip to the Chinati Foundation, in Marfa, Texas, that it …

From the Help Desk: Rescuing a Laptop from BitLocker and Lenovo’s SecureBoot

From the Help Desk: Rescuing a Laptop from BitLocker and Lenovo’s SecureBoot

I’m putting this here to help anyone who ends up in the same place I was last night at a bit after midnight. I know you’re out there… I’ve seen your panic-stricken posts to the Lenovo forums (fora?). The Problem: Lenovo-crippled firmware As the de facto “IT person” for the greater portion of my and …

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